Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture - Couverture souple

Saltzman, Benjamin A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226847225 ISBN 13 : 9780226847221

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2026

Synopsis

"Few human gestures are as universal, recognizable, yet ambiguous as the averted gaze--the face turned away or covered in horror, fear, or shame. The gesture arises from within but it is also a performance, partaking at once of the interior and the social. Benjamin A. Saltzman discusses gestures of aversion in ancient and medieval literature and art to unpack their meanings and illuminate the history of affective aesthetics. The book ranges widely, from important "scenes of aversion" from Leontius's ambivalence in Plato's Republic (ca. 375 BCE) to the grief surrounding Christ's Crucifixion in early modern drawings and frescos (ca. 500-1600), and to some contemporary reimaginings, including paintings by Marc Chagall and photographs by Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Susan Meiselas, with illuminating discussions of Eakins, Goya, and van Gogh along the way. It will be of interest to a wide range of humanities scholars interested in the connection between literature and visual art"-- Provided by publisher.

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À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin A. Saltzman is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he coedits the journal Modern Philology. Saltzman is the author of Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England and the coeditor of Thinking of the Medieval: Midcentury Intellectuals and the Middle Ages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226847225
• ISBN 13: 9780226847221
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: The University of Chicago Press; https://press.uchicago.edu/index.html; ; 5801 S. Ellis Avenue; Chicago; IL; 60637; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible